--- In [email protected], "Robin Smithett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Why don't we set a few hares running? > For example: how many managers in BW pre-date Robin Evans, and how many know > anything about boating?
Of the executive directors, these predate RE as far as I know: Mark Bensted (London), Nigel Johnson (legal), Vince Moran (personnel), Simon Salem (marketing), Jim Stirling (engineering) - i.e. five out of nine. As far as I know none of the executive directors are boaters, though Jim Stirling has been with BW 15 years and therefore I'd think has a decent grip of waterway engineering. Richard Bowker, one of the non-execs (and chief exec of National Express), is a narrowboat owner. Of the waterway (sorry, "business unit") managers, I'm surprised not to be able to find a list of them on the BW website. Certainly some of them were working at BW before RE. The numerous reorganisations since then, however, do mean that few or none of them would have been in their current jobs. It would be an interesting exercise to estimate how many years' waterway experience have been lost to BW in the past five years from redundancy, whether compulsory or voluntary. Richard
